Plenary Panel Discussions

Join in and engage on current issues with your peers in these informative panel discussions. Lot's of time for Q&A is built into the Panel forums.

PLENARY PANEL FORUM: 
The Emergency Room NACRS Initiative (ERNI):
The art of the possible
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Monday October 4

A behind the scenes look at how the collaboration between Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) and the Acting Provincial Emergency Room (ER) Lead enabled change in Ontario's hospitals that resulted in a 75 percent reduction in time to report ER data.

Panelists:
Lynn Guerriero, Director, Access to Care Information Program, Cancer Care Ontario
Joseph Laforet, Director, Chronic Disease Information Program, Cancer Care Ontario
Cathy Davis, Interim Director, Acute & Ambulatory Care Information Services, CIHI
Dr. Howard Ovens, Provincial ER Clinical Lead; Toronto Central LHIN ER Lead; Director Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital; Associate Professor, DFCM, University of Toronto

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PLENARY PANEL FORUM:
The Benefits of Collaboration: Integrating Change Management into the Implementation of a Provincial Wait Time Registry -
The Nova Scotia Experience
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Tuesday October 5

Access to healthcare services has been identified as a fundamental concern for governments, healthcare providers, patients, and the public. As a first step to improving access to surgical services, the Nova Scotia Department of Health created and implemented a Patient Access Registry (PAR NS) in all health districts with a goal to better inform decision makers about patient's surgical wait times. The success of the project was in large part due to the collaboration of business process redesign (BPR) and change management (CM) efforts. Through dedicated BPR and CM resources, a comprehensive and strategic approach was taken to ensure stakeholders were engaged and well prepared for the implementation of the new registry.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the benefits of early and strategic communication prior to and during implementation, and the importance and benefits of senior leadership when implementing change
• Learn about the role and benefits of change management strategies in collaboration with business process redesign efforts, and the benefits of incorporating dedicated change management resources into the business process redesign team
• Learn about the importance of sustainability planning following the implementation of a large change initiative

Panelists:
Lindsay McVicar, Acting Director, Nova Scotia Department of Health
Aaron Scott, BSc. Computer Science, Senior Change Consultant, Accreon Inc.
Shelley Fletcher, Senior Change Consultant, Accreon Inc.
Liz Nemeth, RN, BScN, MN, Manager, Healthtech Consultants Inc.

Biographies for each speaker can be found under the Education Program tab here